Disciples and Editing
Nov 10, 2006 04:27 AM
by carlosaveline
Friends,
A more complex side of the controversy about editorial policies is that, in fact, disciples and Mahatmas have such a magnetic unity among them that they do not care as we do about proper quotations, verbatim reproduction, etc.
This is well-documented in theosophical history.
They even have telepathy working among them all the time, so it would often be difficult to say "whose thought is it anyway".
It has been a gradual process by which more and more editorial care as to the sources is required. A practice with which I fully agree today, while not ignoring what happens in more occult levels.
In certain moment HPB wrote that William Judge was "a thirteen years disciple". Between he and her, I guess there were no "copyright problems", as between HPB and Damodar, or HPB and Subba Row.
Carlos.
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